Conditions

After this lesson, the reader should understand:

• 01Classify conditions as evaluable, evidenced, or judgement-bound.
• 02Specify the fact source for each evaluable condition.
• 03Design a referral path for judgement-bound conditions.

'Reasonable steps'

How should an artifact handle a condition that requires reasonableness?

It should not pretend to evaluate it. The artifact marks the condition as judgement-bound, halts the automated path, and refers the case with the evaluated context attached. The value is not that the machine decided — it is that the boundary between machine and human judgement is now explicit, recorded, and auditable, instead of being absorbed silently by whoever happened to handle the case.

• Can a judgement-bound condition ever be proxied by a metric?
• Who owns the fact sources an artifact depends on?
• What should happen when a fact is unavailable?

Classify the conditions in one rule.

1. 01List each condition separately.
2. 02Assign a class to each.
3. 03Name the fact source or the referral route.
4. 04Note the behaviour when a fact is missing.

• Evidence law and standards of proof.
• Data provenance and attestation.
• Human-in-the-loop decision architecture.